Clothes peg



' 1615,725 1927' a. s. RICHARDSON CLOTHES PEG Filed April 6, 1925 ave/2X02" G05 Zzezz fikugg/z Patented Jan. 25, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA, AS-

OF \VATERLOO, SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA, A CORPORATTON OF NEW SOUTH TALES.

CLOTHES PEG.

Application filed. April 6, 1925, Serial No. 21,086, and in Australia May 27, 1924.

This invention relates to wire pegs employed for securing clothes to clothes lines, and provides a simple, easily constructed, and durable wire peg that will reliably secure the clothes to the line and avoid the tearing of same.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention, and therein:

Figure l is an elevation 01": the peg,

Figure 2 is an elevation taken at a right angle to Figure 1, and

Figure 3 is a perspective view illustrating the peg in use on a clothes line.

The peg is formed by bending a wire between its ends into a nearly circular portion 1 which acts as a spring and then bending the end portions to extend transversely of said circular portion with their extremities 3 projecting just beyond the uppermost central part etof said circular portion to form a pair of gripping prongs 2. The extremities 3 of the prongs 2 are bent where they cross the circular portion to avoid tearing of the clothes.

The two prongs 2 which are practically straight, are at a distance from one another where they are bent from the circular portion, thus forming a mouth 5, and converge toward their extremities 3 to form a space 6 which becomes narrower from said month toward their free ends to ensure an increasingly tight grip as the peg is pressed down over the clothes on the clothes line 7.

it will be noted that the circular portion 1, where it merges into the prongs 2 is curved, thus forming acurved month which facilitates the application of the peg to the clothes and obviates damage to the clothes.

The circular portion is slightly dished as illustrated at 8 in Figure 2 and the extremities 3 ot the prongs 2 are slightly bent as at 9 where they cross the part 4 ot the circular portion.

Owing to the natural resiliency of the wire and the almost circular shape of the main portion of the peg, the prongs will facilitate removal of the peg 1. A clothes peg comprising a wire bent into substantially circular form and having its end portions bent to form prongs extend ing transversely of and beyond said circular portion, said prongs being spaced apart where they are bent from said circular portion and converging toward their tree ends, that part of the circular portion crossed by said prongs being bent out of the plane of ts remaining portion, and said prongs adacent; at the points where they cross saie circular portion being bent in the same direction as said bent part of said circular portion.

2. A clothes peg comprising a member bent between its ends into a substantially circular portion and having its-end portions straight and curvilinearly bent from said circular portion so asto extend transversely of and beyond said circular portion, saiil straight portions where they are bent from said circular portions being spaced apart to form a gap and converging toward their free ends, said circular portion being dished between the points at which said straight portions are bent therefrom and the points at which said straight portions cross the same, and said straight portions being bent adjacent their ends beyond the plane of said dished portion.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

GOSHEN SWEYN RICHARDSON.

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